TY - JOUR
T1 - Cybernetics and Systems
T2 - An International Journal: Introduction
AU - Fischer, Michael D.
AU - Read, Dwight
AU - Lyon, Stephen M.
PY - 2005/12
Y1 - 2005/12
N2 - The significance of anthropological involvement in applied areas of economics, development, business, and similar fields is discussed. Contributions from a group of anthropologists, sociologists and computer scientists towards developing a more formal approach to understanding culture and its component processes are presented. Culture as a systemic concept has rapidly become pervasive outside anthropology in many cognate social sciences and humanities subjects. It is found that a model of culture can be instantiated in an agent population to adaptively solve real world optimization problems.
AB - The significance of anthropological involvement in applied areas of economics, development, business, and similar fields is discussed. Contributions from a group of anthropologists, sociologists and computer scientists towards developing a more formal approach to understanding culture and its component processes are presented. Culture as a systemic concept has rapidly become pervasive outside anthropology in many cognate social sciences and humanities subjects. It is found that a model of culture can be instantiated in an agent population to adaptively solve real world optimization problems.
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U2 - 10.1080/01969720500356654
DO - 10.1080/01969720500356654
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:29144501493
SN - 0196-9722
VL - 36
SP - 719
EP - 734
JO - Cybernetics and Systems
JF - Cybernetics and Systems
IS - 8
ER -